[geeks] Policy for system / package upgrades in Enterprise

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:10:44PM +0530, Katrina Gawas wrote:
>Thanks for the reply. We are open to suggestions regarding change of
>OS. U have already mentioned CENTOS & RHEL; What would you recommend
>keeping our requirement of adhering to ISO 27k requirements?

You're welcome. I'm not familar with the ISO 27K requirements but if RHEL
fits them, your best bet would be to use it.

Since the source code for the RHEL extensions is freely available,
CENTOS is a "free" version of the same code, compiled and supported
by volunteers. 

If that level of support is all that your company needs or can afford, then
it may be good enough for them. In any case, it's better than UBUNTU's. :-(

Sun used to have generous developer discounts. If they still do now that
Oracle has taken over you should consider them too. 

Geoff.

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